CARLA CONTEMORI Curriculum Vitae January 2010

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1 PERSONAL INFORMATION DoB 03/11/1982 Address: Viale Lombardia Chianciano Terme (SI) Italy CARLA CONTEMORI Curriculum Vitae January 2010 RESEARCH INTERESTS - Typical and atypical language development - Early acquisition of morphosyntax - Neurodevelopmental language disorders EDUCATION 2010 Bi-Sli - Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment COST Action IS0804 Working group member. Syntax and Interfaces with Morphology and Semantics 2010 University of Basque Country (Spain) Workshop on Understanding Language: forty years down the garden path 2010 University of Newcastle (UK) Secon Meeting of Cost Action IS0804, Language Impairment in a multilingual society 2010 University of Reading (UK) Clinical Language Science Department Supervisor: prof. Theodor Marinis University of Trento, Milano, Siena; Fondazione Marica De Vincenzi O.N.L.U.S Member of MARLIN Project. Linguistic Markers and atypical language development 2009 University of Poznan (Poland)

2 Summer School in Generative Grammar 2009 University of Groeningen (Netherlands) Winter School, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics 2008 Linguistic Institute of Barcelona (Spain) Summer school on Psycholinguistics 2008 Azienza pubblica dei servizi alla persona "Beato de Tschiderer", Trento (Italy) Carried out observations and diagnostic tests on children with Specific Language Impairment From 2007 University of Siena, Italy. PhD student in Cognitive Science 2007 Italian Association of Down syndrome. Carried out observations and diagnostic tests on patients with Down Syndrome 200 Master Degree in Linguistics obtained with 110 out of 110 and honors University of Siena, Italy 2005 Bachelor Degree in Communication Science 2004 Institute of information and media studies. University of Aarhus, DK Carried out observations and data collection on the topic: Foreigner Talk Institute of information and media studies. University of Aarhus, DK Visiting undergraduate student STUDENT AWARDS AND GRANTS 2010 Attendance Grant awarded by the University of Basque Country (Spain) PhD fellowship granted by University of Siena, Italy Part time job granted by University of Siena, Italy. Computer lab caretaker, Department of Media studies, University of Siena Exchange student scholarship, Socrates/Erasmus Program, University of Siena. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

3 2010 University of Reading (UK) Seminar on The comprehension of relative clauses in adults and children: a self-paced listening study SISS Course for secondary school teachers. University of Siena, Pisa, Firenze, Italy. Invited teacher at the 2009 Course for school teacher of disable students Azienza pubblica dei servizi alla persona "Beato de Tschiderer", Trento (Italy). Seminar on data collection with SLI children CISCL - Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language, University of Siena, Italy. Seminar on experimental data collection: typical and atypical language development. OTHER SKILLS Languages: Italian: native speaker English: fluent (TOEFL test: 101/110) Spanish: conversational Danish: basic (ILPC course) Computer-based experiment packages: E-prime Corpus-based research programs: Childes Statistic packages: SPSS, StatView, Microsoft Office Excel Other knowledge of informatics: Office; Adobe; WaveLab; Cool Edit; advanced knowledge of Internet. PUBLICATIONS Contemori C. (in press). The comprehension and production of clitics in Italian adults with Down Syndrome: a pilot study. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Contemori C., Belletti, A. (in press). Disentangling the mastery of object relatives in children and adults. Evidence from Italian. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

4 Contemori, C., Garraffa, M., (2010). A cross modality study on syntax in SLI: the limits of computation as a measure of linguistic abilities. Lingua, 8(120), Belletti, A., Contemori C. (in press). Intervention and attraction. On the production of Subject and Object relatives by Italian (young) children and adults. In: Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Contemori, C., Garraffa, M., (2009). Linguistic vulnerability and clinical perspectives: a study of the comprehension and production of relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment. Proceedings of 2nd International Clinical Linguistics Conference, University of Madrid. Contemori, C., (2007). Linguistics and Down Syndrome: study of a group of adolescents. Unpublished dissertation, University of Siena (written in Italian) Advisor: Prof. Adriana Belletti. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2010 COST Action IS Third MC & WGs Meeting.. Larnaca, Cyprus. Poster presentation The production and imitation of subject relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment: a longitudinal study University of Siena, Italy Giornata FIRB - La ricerca fondamentale sul linguaggio al servizio della lingua italiana: documentazione, acquisizione monolingue, bilingue e L2, e ideazione di prodotti multimediali Oral presentation The on-line comprehension of relative clauses in English and Italian typically developing children and adults University of Edinburgh th International Workshop on Language Production Poster presentation Deviance or delay in speech production? A study of relative clauses in individuals with Down Syndrome 2010 City University of London COST Action A33 Final Conference: Let the children speak: Learning of Critical Language Skills across 25 Languages.

5 Delay or deviance in the syntax of children with SLI? A study on comprehension and production of sentences with non-canonical word order (withdrawal for familiar commitment) 2009 University of Madrid, Spain 2nd International Clinical Linguistics Conference Oral presentation with Maria Garraffa Linguistic vulnerability and clinical perspectives: a study of the comprehension and production of relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment University of Trento, Italy Typical and atypical language development: Techniques and instruments for evaluation Delay or deviance in the syntax of children with SLI? A study on comprehension and production of sentences with non-canonical word order 2009 University of Chieti, Italy XV National congress on Experimental Psychology, AIPS Poster Presentation Produzione di frasi relative in bambini con Disturbo Specifico di Linguaggio: uno studio longitudinale 2009 University of Lisbon, Portugal GALA- Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Oral Presentation with Adriana Belletti Intervention and attraction. On the production of Subject and Object relatives by Italian (young) children and adults University of Messina, Italy CODISCO 3 rd National Congress of postgraduate research in Cognitive Science. Oral Presentation Production of relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment: a longitudinal study University of Groeningen, Netherlands RASCAL International conference on relating asymmetries between speech and comprehension in the acquisition of language Selected Long Presentation A cross modality study on syntax in SLI: the limits of computation as a measure of linguistic abilities University of Padova, Italy National congress on Sperimental Psychology, AIPS

6 Non-canonical word order as a grammatic phenomenon: strategies and linguistic profiles in Specific Language Impairment 2008 University of Trento, Italy Congress on linguistic thories and rehabilitation models in aphasics patients Poster presentation with Emanuela Paris Analysis of linguistic competence in SLI children: some observations on an experimental group 2008 University of Trento, Italy Congress on linguistic thories and rehabilitation models in aphasics patients Non-canonical word order as a grammatic phenomenon: strategies and linguistic profiles in Specific Language Impairment